G. Bird, on the principal street.
While standing behind the counter in the dining saloon, also while she
worked in the adjoining kitchen, many new and wonderful things were
witnessed by the inhabitants of Amherst and by strangers from a
distance, and many plans were tried to prevent the manifestations. Among
others, some one suggested that if she could stand on glass they would
cease. So pieces of glass were put into her shoes, but as their presence
caused her head to ache and her nose to bleed, without stopping the
manifestations, the idea was abandoned.
One morning the door of the large stove in the kitchen adjoining the
saloon was opened and shut by the ghost, much to the annoyance of Mr.
White, who with an old axe handle so braced the door that it could not
be moved by any known mundane power, unless the axe handle was first
removed. A moment afterwards, however, the ghost, who seemed never to
leave Esther's presence while she was in the saloon, lifted the door off
its hinges, removed the axe handle from the position in which it had
been placed, and, after throwing them some distance into the air, let
both fall to the floor with a tremendous crash.
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